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Nangal Fertilizers
Nepanagar (M.P) Newsprint
Neyveli Lignite
Ooty (Nilgiris) (T.N) Film Manufacture
Perambur (Chennai) Integral Coach Factory
Pimpri (Poona) Pencillin Factory
Pinjore (Haryana) Machine Tools
Rana Pratap Sagar Atomic Power Plant
Raniganj Coal Mining
Renukoot Aluminium
Rupnarainpur (W.B) Cables
Sindri Fertilizer
Singhbhum Copper, Iron ore
Sirpur Paper
Sivakasi Match Industry
Sriharikota (A.P) Satellite Station
Surat Gold lace
Tarapur (Maharashtra) Nuclear Power
Thumba (Kerala) Rocket Launching Centre
Tiruchirappalli Cigar
Tiruverumbur (T.N) Heavy Electricals
Titagarh Paper Mills
Trombay (Maharashtra) Atomic Reactors
Tuticorin (Tamil Nadu) Thermal, Pearl fishing
Udaipur (Rajasthan) Zinc Project
Udhana (Gujarat) Rayon
Urkunta (Karnataka) Cement
Uttapara (W.B) Ambassador cars
Vadodara (Gujarat) Nylon filament yarn
Vandalur (Chennai) Automobile
WILD ANIMALS
Black Bear Kashmir and parts of Himalayas
Deer (Spotted) Many parts in India
ASSOCIATION OF PLACES
Bardoli Sardar Patel
Belur Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Chittor Rana Pratap
Corsica Napoleon Bonaparte
Dandi Mahatma Gandhi
Fatehpur Sikri Akbar the Great
Haldighat Rana Pratap
Hiroshima (Japan) Ist Atom Bomb dropped
Jallianwala-Bagh Massacre of Indians
Jerusalem Jesus Christ
Kapilvastu Buddha
Lumbini Buddha
Macedonia Alexander the Great
Mecca Prophet Mohammed
Nagasaki (Japan) IInd Atom Bomb dropped
Pearl Harbour Japan's attack during World
War II
Pondicherry Aurobindo Ghosh
Porbunder, Rajghat Mahatma Gandhi
Sabarmati Mahatma Gandhi
Seringapatnam Tipu Sultan
Shakti Sthal (New Delhi) Mrs. Indira Gandhi
Shantivana Jawaharlal Nehru
Shantiniketan R.N. Tagore
Talwandi Guru Nanak
Trafalgar Nelson
Ujjain Mahavira
Vijay Ghat (Delhi) L.B. Shastri
Chambal Project is a joint undertaking by the Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh gover
nments. The Rana Pratap Dam at Bhata, 488 km from Kotah, was inaugurted on Fed 9
, 1970. The project comprises construction of two other dams : Gandhi Sagar Dam
in Madhya Pradesh and Jawahar Sagar (Kotah) Dam in Rajasthan.
Chamera Hydro-Electric Project : The 540 MW Chamera was implemented with Canadia
n credit offer about Rs. 335 crore.
Chukha Project : The 336 MW project is the most prestigious and largest in Bhuta
n. It has been completely built by India. The dam has been constructed on Wang C
hu river. The project costed Rs.244 crore.
Damodar Velley Project (West Bengal and Bihar) : Principal object of this multip
urpose scheme is to control the flowing of the Damodar which is notorious for it
s vagaries and destrutiveness. It is designed on the lines of the Tennesses Vall
ey Authority (T.V.A.) in U.S.A.
Dul-Hasti Hydro-electric Project : The 1263 crore project has been built on rive
r Chenab in Jammu and Kashmir. The foundation of the project was laid in Septemb
er 1984. The project consists of a power plant of 390 MW capacity. The power hou
se will be located underground.
Farakka Barrage : The basic aim of the Farakka Barrage is to preserve and mainta
in Calcutta port and to improve the navigability of the Hooghly river. It consis
ts of a barrage across the Ganga at Farakka. Another barrage at Jangipur across
the Bhagirathi, a 39-km long feeder canal taking off from the right bank of the
Ganga at Farakka and tailing into the Bhagirathi below the Jangipur barrage, and
a road-cum-rail bridge have already been completed. Especially, the object of F
arakka is to use about 40,000 cusecs of water out of the water stored in the dam
to flush the Calcutta port which is getting silted up.
Gandak Project (Bihar and UP) : This is a joint venture of India and Nepal as pe
r agreement signed between the two governments on Dec. 4, 1959. Bihar and UP are
the participating Indian States. Nepal would also derive irrigation and power b
enefits from this project.
Hirakud Project (Orissa) : is the first of a chain of three Dams planned for har
vesting the Mahanadi.
Idduki Hydro-Electric Project : It is a giant hydro-electric project of Kerala a
nd one of the biggest in the country constructed with Canadian assistance with a
n installed capacity of 390 MW in the first stage and 780 MW on the second stage
. The project envisages to harness Periyar water and it has three major dams, th
e 160 m high Iddukki arch dam across Periyar river, 138 m high Cheruthoni Dam ac
ross the tributary of Cheruthoni river and 99.9 m high Kulmavu Dam.
Jayakwadi Dam (Maharashtra): The 10-km long Jayakwadi dam on the Godavari is Mah
arashtra s largest power project located near Paithan.
Kakarapara Project is on the river Tapti near Kakarapara, 80 km upstream of Sura
t. The project is financed by the Gujarat government.
Koel Karo Project : The project envisages construction of eastern dam across riv
er south Koel at Basia in Bihar and another dam over north Karo at Lohajimi. The
capacity will be 710 MW.
Kosi Project (Bihar) : This project will serve Bihar and Nepal. The Kosi rises i
n Nepal, passes through Bihar and it joins the Ganges. The river is subject to h
eavy flood. Two are to be built across it.
Nagarjuna Sagar Project : is a venture of Andhra Pradesh for utilising water fro
m the Krishna river. The Nagarjuna Sagar Dam was inaugurated on Aug. 4, 1967. It
is situated near Nadikonad village in Mriyalguda taluk of Nalgonda district.
Parambikulam Aliyar Project : is a joint venture of Tamil Nadu and Kerala States
. It envisages construction of seven inter-connected reservoirs by harnessing ri
ver including 2 major rivers viz., Parambikulam on the western slopes of Anamala
i hills and Aliyar on the eastern slopes. Parappalar Dam : The Rs.1-Crore Parapp
alar Dam with a storage capacity of 1677 million cubic feet near Oddenchatram ab
out 75 km from Madurai in Palani taluk (Tamil Nadu), was inaugurated on August 3
0, 1976.
Periyar Valley Scheme (Kerala) : The scheme envisages the construction of a maso
nary barrage 210.92 meters long across the river Periyar near Alwaye, in Ernakul
am district.
Pong Dam : Also called the Beas Dam on the river Beas, near Talwara in Himachal
Pradesh, is the highest (132 m high) rockfill dam in the country. The project is
a joint venture of Rajasthan, Punjab and Haryana. The dam has been designed to
store 6.6 million cu. feet of water.
he project, which uses water from the Pong Dam, consists of 215-km long Rajastha
n feeder canal with the first 178 km in Punjab and Haryana and the remaining 37
km in Rajasthan and the 467-km long Rajasthan main canal lying entirely in Rajas
than.
Ramganga River Project : UP envisages construction of a dam across the river Ram
ganga, one of the major tributaries of the Ganges at 3.2 km upstreams of Kalagar
h in Garhwal district.
Rihand Project : (Mirzapur District - U.P.) This project has been completed by t
he U.P. government and comprises construction of a concrete gravity dam across t
he Rihand river in Mirzapur District (UP) and a Power House at Pimpri and necess
ary transmission lines.
Rongtong - World s Highest Hydro Power Project : The Rongtong project is situated
in Kaza in the Spiti Valley in Himachal Pradesh. The project will help transform
the entire cold mountain desert into a lush green belt.
Salal Project : It has been built on River Chenab in Jammu and Kashmir. The firs
t stage was completed on February 9, 1989 and marked the beginning of the harnes
sing of hydro-power potential of the river Chenab. At present the capacity of th
e power house is 345 MW. With the completion of Second stage the capacity will b
e doubled.
Sanja Vidyut (Hydel) Project : It is Asia s first fully underground Hydel Project.
The 120 MW project is located near Bhaba Nagar in Kinnur district of Himachal P
radesh. It harnesses the water of the Bhaba khud, a tributary of Sutlej.
Sardar Sarovar Project : This is one of the largest river valley schemes in the
country. The project envisages construction of 163-meter-high cement concrete da
m at Navagam in Gujarat. This will create irrigation potential of 1.79 million h
ectares and generate 1450 MW of power. On completion of the project more than 40
per cent of the drought-affected areas of Gujarat would be ensured against the
calamity.
Sharavati Project (Karnataka) : Located about 400 km from Bangalore near the Ger
soppa falls, the Sharavati project is one of the world s major power projects, bui
lt by Indian Engineers with American collaboration.
Tehri Dam Project : The project is to be built by the Soviet Union on a turnkey
basis. This dam being constructed will be the third highest dam in the world. Th
e total capacity will be increased to 2000 MW in the second stage of the project
.
Telugu Ganga Project : Inaugurated in May 1983 this project will consist of 400
km long canal named Telugu Ganga which starts from the Srisailam reservoir of Kr
ishna river in Kurnool district. The canal will join four more reservoirs on way
before joining the Poondi reservoir in Tamil Nadu. The Poondi reservoir is to m
eet the drinking water needs of Chennai.
Ukai Project : The Ukai power project of Gujarat equipped with power generating
sets manufactured by Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited was inaugurated on October
12, 1977. It has added 540,00 MW of installed capacity to the State s existing po
wer network.
Srirangapatnam Cauvery..
Stalingrad Volga..
St.Louis Mississippi..
Surat Tapti..
Sydney Darling..
Tokyo Arakawa..
Varanasi Ganges..
Vienna Danube..
Vijayawada Krishna..
Warsaw Vistula..
Washington Potomac..
Ottawa Ottawa..
Pandharpur Bhima..
Hyderabad Musi..
Jabalpur Narmada..
Kabul Kabul..
Kanpur Ganges..
Karachi Sindh..
Khartoun Confluence of Blue..
& White Nile..
Kotah Chambal..
Kurnool Tungbhadra..
Lahore Ravi..
Leh Indus..
Leningrad Neva..
Liverpool Mersey..
Lisbon Tagus..
London Thames..
Lucknow Gomati..
Ludhiana Sutlej..
Madrid Manzaneres..
Montreal St.Lawrence..
Moscow Moskva..
Nasik Godavari..
Agra Jamuna..
Allahabad Confluence of the..
Ganges & the Jamuna..
Ayodhya Saryu..
Badrinath Ganges..
Baghdad Tigris..
Belgrade Danube..
Berlin Spree..
Budapest Danube..
Buenos Aires La Plata..
Cairo Nile..
Kolkata Hooghly..
Chittagong Maiyani..
Cologne Rhine..
Cuttack Mahanadi..
Delhi Yamuna..
Dibrugarh Brahmaputra..
Dublin Liffey..
Ferozepur Sutlej..
Guwahati Brahmaputra..
Hamburg Elbe..
Hankow Yangtse-Kiang..
Hardwar Ganges..